- Docente: Alessandra Bonazzi
- Credits: 6
- SSD: M-GGR/01
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Communication Sciences (cod. 0960)
Course contents
Race is a geographical project. Race is constructed in and through space. Space literally construct and maintain hard-and-fast boundaries between "races". That is, it constructs on the ground precisely that which could not be constructed in our bodies: clear distinctions between us. Race is little more than vagaries of the poplar and scientific imagination. The idea of race is powerful only insofar as it organizes people's activities, meanings, etc. If race is a social practice, then, the spaces in which we make that practice are crucial. The aim of the course is to explore the construction of geographical otherness of America in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and the mythologies of the imperial geographies in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Readings/Bibliography
A. Bonazzi, Manuale di geografia culturale, Roma, Laterza, 2011; E. Said, Cultura e imperialismo. Letteratura e consenso nel progetto coloniale dell'Occidente, Roma, Gamberetti Editrice, 1998.
Office hours
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